This heartfelt, and wholly organic new album opens on Melody Gardot’s sultry blues within Your Heart Is as Black as Night and the gentle finger-snapper, swingtown wit of Catch 22, and then they are followed by the searingly upbeat and joyous melodies within the cautionary tale Red Velvet Rope (which is set to a sensuous Latin groove by cuatro master Kiki Valera), and then come the quietly-imbued balladry of Over and Done and then an despairingly aching tale is brought forth within The Boy That Lived There.
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When Music Becomes Personal In an age defined by streaming music, algorithm-driven playlists, and online storefronts of every song you'd ever want to hear, a click delivers it into your hand. Even though we are now more closely connected with music than ever before,...
